Building and installing a PilotAware ATOM Station to detect and re-transmit glider and
Mode-S MLAT locations and provide Virtual RADAR SERVER December 2020.
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You will then see a resume of your configuration
########################## Summary ##########################
Station Name is :
Your Station Name
Station APRS Server is : aprs.
glidernet
.org:14580
Station Latitude is :
Your Station Latitude
Station Longitude is :
Your Station Longitude
Station Altitude AMSL [M] is :
Your station altitude
Station Altitude GEOID [M] is :
Your Station GEOID
Station SDR PPM is :
Your Station Flarm Offset
Station SDR Gain is :
Your Station Flarm Antenna Gain
Station SDR Freq Centre is :
Your Station Centre Frequency
########################## Summary ##########################
Starting Services
The station will now log into the OGN and the ATOM GRID servers and you will get
(21:54:20) FILESYS : Mount RO
pi@ognpaw
:
~/rtlsdr-ogn $
If you do not get this message after about 20 minutes check that the connection to the router is secure and
that you have access to the internet.
The configuration is now done and the PilotAware servers will get a message to connect you
to the secure grid. This has to be authenticated manually to ensure that you are a genuine site
so may take some time as the email address is not manned 24/7. Any issues contact
To get back to the home page type the IP address into the command line with no extension.
(make sure that an extension has not been cashed if it appears delete it
Testing the Installation
Your station will next appear on the Open Glider Network App the URL of which is shown
here. This may take up to 20 minutes to appear.
https://ognrange.glidernet.org/#,max,lastweek,52.12902_6.85676,,#000000ff:#000000ff,circl
es
It will also show in the list of sites available here
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0n5emkw4nm85sw1/ogn-r.txt?dl=0
It may take some time to register but not longer than 20 minutes.